# procent
## Danish
### Etymology

From German Prozent.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pʁ̥oˈsɛnˀd̥]

### Noun

procent c (singular definite procenten, plural indefinite procenter)
* percent

#### Inflection

Following a number, numeral or other quantity specification:

### See also

* promille

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

procent n (plural procenten, diminutive procentje n)
* percent

#### Descendants

* → Caribbean Javanese: persèn, prosèn
* → Indonesian: prosen

### See also

* promille

## Kashubian
### Alternative forms

* procãt (obsolete)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Polish procent.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈprɔ.t͡sɛnt/
* Rhymes: -ɔt͡sɛnt
* Syllabification: pro‧cent

### Noun

procent m inan
* percent (one part per hundred; one percent, represented with the symbol %)
    Synonym: rińta
* (banking) percent (annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend)
    Synonym: rińta
* percent (percentage, a proportion, especially per hundred)
    Synonym: rińta

### Further reading

* Stefan Ramułt (1893) “procąt”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego (in Kashubian), page 161
* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “procent”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎, volume 2, page 628
* “procent”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

## Latin
### Verb

procent
* third-person plural present active subjunctive of procō

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Prozent. First attested in the 18th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈprɔ.t͡sɛnt/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈprɔ.t͡sent/, /ˈprɔ.t͡sɛ̃t/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔt͡sɛnt
* Syllabification: pro‧cent

### Noun

procent m inan (diminutive procencik, related adjective procentowy, abbreviation proc.)
* (finance, mathematics) percent (one part per hundred; one percent, represented with the symbol %)
    Synonym: odsetek
* (banking) percent (annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend)
    Synonym: oprocentowanie
* percent (percentage, a proportion, especially per hundred)

#### Derived terms

* na sto procent

#### Related terms

* bezprocentowy
* procentowy
* bezprocentowo
* procentowo

#### Descendants

* → Kashubian: procent

### Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), procent is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 58 times in scientific texts, 79 times in news, 153 times in essays, 3 times in fiction, and 2 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 295 times, making it the 803rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

### References

* ↑ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “procent”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* ↑ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “procent”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
* ↑ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “procent”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
* ↑ Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “procent”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “procent”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 434

### Further reading

* procent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* procent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “procent”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1908), “procent”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw, page 1005

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Prozent.

### Noun

procent n (plural procente)
* percent

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* pròcenat

### Etymology

Borrowed from German Prozent, ultimately from Latin per centum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /prǒt͡sent/
* Hyphenation: pro‧cent

### Noun

pròcent m (Cyrillic spelling про̀цент)
* percent
* percentage

#### See also

* posto

### References

* “procent”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /prʊˈsɛnt/
* Audio (Gotland):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

procent c
* percent
    Synonym: hundradel

#### Derived terms

* felprocent
* procentandel
* procentare
* procentenhet
* procenthalt
* -procentig
* procentpåslag
* procenträkning
* procentsats
* procentsiffra
* procenttal
* procentuell
* svarsprocent

### References

* procent in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* procent in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* procent in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)